An Interpretation in Sound of Michel Bernanos' 1968 Book, La Montagne Morte De La Vie, Often Translated as the Other Side of the Mountain

Overture-Tide of Tears, Youth

1st Reading,Baudelaire's Introduction

Evening of Drink Aboard Ship

Keelhauled

A Friend Indeed Is a Friend in Toine

Dreaming of Blue Infinity

Becalmed

Breaking Down-Cannibal Hunger

Life Giving Rain

2nd Reading the Violence of the Storm

Gale, Loss of Others,Main Mast Down, Whirlpool

3rd Reading, Lost at Sea

4th Reading, Coming to Shore

Landfall, A New World, Red Skies-Take Warning

5th Reading, Gates of Hell, A Hideous Beauty

Final Ascent-Beginning

6th Reading, Into the Terrible Beauty

Skin Roughens, Statues, Getting Older

7th Reading, Skin Ages More

No Reason to Believe, Crust Forming, Hope Endures

8th Reading, Crust Grows

Crust Envelops, Enduring Still, Nearing Top of Endless Mountain

9th Reading, We Turn Back to Earth, To Minerals

End of Trail, Paralysis, The Fall Down Mountain

10th Reading, The Last Words, Silence

Finale-Denouement, Acceptance